OIL to hunt crude in Brahmaputra riverbed

India plans to dig the bed of the Brahmaputra, one of Asia’s biggest and most turbulent rivers, in Assam to hunt for crude oil reserves.

“We have launched an aggressive attempt to accelerate oil production in the country with a target to enhance our output in Assam by at least one million tonnes by next year,” Mulkh Raj Pasrija, chairman-cum-managing director of Oil India Limited (OIL), said. OIL, with its headquarters in Assam, produces about 3.2 million tonnes of crude in the state annually.
The Times of India